New Federal Bill Restores Vital Health Care Services to Immigrant Women and Families Center for Reproductive Rights Calls Measure “Crucial,” Urges Congress to Support Health Care Coverage for all Women (PRESS RELEASE) Today Congresswoman Michelle [...]

Women Must Have Control Over Their Own Bodies [OP-ED] by Rebecca Brown Earlier this year France was the latest to join a handful of progressive countries to expand access to reproductive health services — with [...]

U.S. Human Rights at the U.N. The United States government, like all nations that have ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), must periodically report to the U.N. Human Rights Committee. To [...]

Dane County, Wisconsin Board of Supervisors Passes Resolution in Support of Federal Women’s Health Protection Act Supervisors also call upon the Wisconsin State Legislature to repeal all state laws that interfere with women’s access to [...]

Two More Texas Health Centers Forced to Close in Wake of Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions Passed Last Summer Women in East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley face dire health care crisis (PRESS RELEASE) Whole Woman’s [...]

New Lawsuit Challenges Arizona’s Unconstitutional Restrictions on Non-Surgical Abortion Regulations would severely limit—if not outright ban—access to medication abortion, force doctors to ignore best medical practices (PRESS RELEASE) Women’s health care providers filed a federal [...]

Jurist: Examining the Constitutionality of Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones Stephanie Toti The US Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in McCullen v. Coakley, involving a Massachusetts statute that creates 35 foot buffer zones around abortion [...]

Harmful Alaska regulation that discriminates against low-income women temporarily blocked Significant victory for Medicaid-eligible women in accessing the full range of reproductive health care (PRESS RELEASE) An Alaska Superior Court has extended the Temporary Restraining Order [...]

New Health and Human Rights Teaching Resource We are very excited to report the launch of the Health and Human Rights Syllabus Database. Compiled by the Program on Global Health &, Human Rights, Institute for Global [...]

Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest in Court to Protect Abortion Access for Low Income Women in Alaska Lawsuit seeks to immediately block new regulation that severely restricts abortion coverage through the state Medicaid program [...]